Paint-Chip Plastics- The Brain-Aging Threat in Glass Caps - AI Podcast

Dr. Joseph Mercola - Take Control of Your Health

Briana Mercola

Health & Fitness, Health, Alternative Health

4.6 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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A French government study found that glass bottles contain five to 50 times more microplastics than plastic bottles, mostly from the painted caps that seal them
Researchers discovered that the microscopic plastic fragments in glass-packaged drinks matched the chemical makeup of the bottle cap paint, not the glass itself
When bottle caps were pre-cleaned with filtered air and ethanol, microplastic levels dropped by over 60% — showing this problem is avoidable with simple changes
Many people now consume roughly 5 grams of plastic per week — the weight of a credit card — from foods, drinking water, and even from breathing polluted air
Microplastics accumulate in your organs, especially the brain, where they trigger inflammation, obstruct blood flow, and accelerate cognitive decline and neurodegeneration

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0:00.0	Do you still grab glass bottle drinks because you think they're cleaner?
0:03.1	Unaware that each sip can carry up to 50 times more plastic than soda in a pet bottle?
0:09.0	Welcome to Dr. Mercola's cellular wisdom. Stay informed with quick, easy-to-listen
0:14.6	summaries of our latest articles, perfect for when you're on the go. No reading required.
0:19.2	Subscribe for free at Mercola.com for the latest health insights.
0:22.7	Hello and welcome to Dr. Mercola's cellular wisdom. I'm Ethan Foster. And I'm I'm
0:29.2	Ilaris Guy. Today we're digging into a French study showing that glass bottles
0:33.2	often dose you with the very microplastics you're trying to avoid, plus the simple fixes that
0:38.5	keep those particles out of your cells. Researchers at France's ANSI's agency tested 79
0:44.5	everyday beverages, water, sodas, iced tea, lemonade, beer, and wine, packaged in glass, plastic, metal,
0:54.0	cardboard, and soft cubitainers. Using sterile hoods and
0:58.3	0.45 micron filters, they counted plastic fragments in each liter. The shocker, glass-bottled
1:05.3	drinks averaged about 100 fragments per liter, five to 50 times higher than plastic or metal. The contamination spanned still
1:13.6	and sparkling water, sodas, and lemonade. Only wine fared better because many bottles use corks,
1:20.6	not painted metal caps. Chemical fingerprinting revealed those fragments were polyester and olkid resin,
1:26.3	the same polymers in the bottle cap paint,
1:28.9	not the glass. Under a microscope, researchers saw microscratches on caps where flakes break off
1:35.1	during storage and twist ceiling, then drop straight into your drink. In a controlled refill test,
1:41.1	brand-new glass bottles capped without pre-cleaning shed roughly 287 fragments
1:46.2	per liter.
1:48.1	Blasting the caps with filtered air or rinsing in ethanol cut that by over 60%, proving the
1:53.7	industry could slash contamination with minimal effort.
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